numbsafari (u/numbsafari)

numbsafari commented on Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years millert.dev/... · Posted by u/wodniok

SoftTalker · 8 days ago

Why should something like sudo not be "done" after 30 years?

Sudo is one of the poster children for creeping featuritis, to the point that the sudoers man page is a meme ("Don't despair if you are unfamiliar with EBNF ...")

Even OpenBSD gave up and implmented their own simplified replacement (doas).

numbsafari · 8 days ago

What are you, a dentist moonlighting as an angel investor?

Software is never "done".

The underlying APIs are always changing. The compilers and system libraries are changing.

Featuritis is a thing, but rolling it back is non-trivial as there are folks who depend upon it.

numbsafari commented on Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections blog.citp.princeton.edu/2... · Posted by u/WaitWaitWha

thegrim000 · 19 days ago

You know, kind of an interesting test here. This was posted 13 minutes ago and the comments so far are mostly all supportive of not wanting internet/insecure voting methods, all supportive of pen and paper. I wonder if after an hour or two the propaganda hoses will have been turned on and all the top comments start to have the reverse messaging in them, saying internet voting is perfectly fine, and such initial comments downvoted into oblivion.

numbsafari · 19 days ago

Whose bots are fastest?

numbsafari commented on Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections blog.citp.princeton.edu/2... · Posted by u/WaitWaitWha

gpt5 · 19 days ago

The most important feature of public elections is trust. Efficiency is one of the least important feature.

When we moved away from paper voting with public oversight of counting to electronic voting we significantly deteriorated trust, we made it significantly easier for a hostile government to fake votes, all for marginal improvements in efficiency which don't actually matter.

Moving to internet voting will further deteriorate the election process, and could move us to a place where we completely lose control and trust of the election process.

We should move back to paper voting.

numbsafari · 19 days ago

Porque no los dos?

numbsafari commented on Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6% electrek.co/2026/01/16/ca... · Posted by u/1970-01-01

Jeff_Brown · 25 days ago

In a country with 42 million inhabitants this doesn't seem like a big change even for canada, let alone for the global economy.

numbsafari · 25 days ago

This is a “0 to 1” change in international relations. This doesn’t bode well for Trump’s trade war.

numbsafari commented on The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis 404media.co/elite-the-pal... · Posted by u/fajmccain

brightball · a month ago

Is there video for any of that?

numbsafari · a month ago

Tons

numbsafari commented on OpenGitOps opengitops.dev/... · Posted by u/locknitpicker

coredog64 · a month ago

Serious question: How do organizations deal with having git on the critical path for deployment? Current employer actually prohibits this due to frequent outages in the git plant.

numbsafari · a month ago

Ummm … github is not git … if you must, keep your git stored locally and simply use webhooks to keep it synced whenever changes are merged via your forge of choice… you can, if necessary, make updates to your locally hosted repo in the event of an outage at the forge, but you’ll need a procedure to “sync back” any changes made during the outage.

Fortunately, the whole thing is git based, so you have all the tools you need to do it.

numbsafari commented on Ask HN: What did you read in 2025? · Posted by u/kwar13

numbsafari · a month ago

This year:

- I read the entire “Frog & Toad” collection. Probably about 30 times, some stories more.

- “Little Shrew’s Day”… probably 25 times.

- Many of the “Construction Site” series books, especially the OG “Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site”. The “Garbage Crew” and “Airport” books featured heavily.

- Started to mix in some “Pete the Cat” titles.

- “Detective Dog Nell” got a lot of air play.

Lots of others, but those are definitely the frequent fliers.

numbsafari commented on Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI skyview.social/?url=https... · Posted by u/christoph-heiss

electroly · a month ago

I'm not sure any humans were behind the email at all (i.e. "do that yourself"). This seems to be some bizarre experiment where someone has strapped an LLM to an email client and let it go nuts. Even being optimistic, it's tough to see what good this was supposed to do for the world.

numbsafari · a month ago

It’s a marketing gimmick. Whoever did it wanted to trade on the social currency of the tech-famous people they sent public shout-outs to, hoping it would drive clicks, engagement, and relevancy for the source account from which it originated, either as an elaborate form of karma farming, or just a way to drive followers and visibility.

numbsafari commented on GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions twitter.com/jaredpalmer/s... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

Xylakant · 2 months ago

Fun thing is that almost every other CI as a service provider charges you in some shape or form for self hosted runners. CircleCI limits the number of self-hosted Job Running in parallel based on your plan and charges a fixed base fee per seat.

So moving away from GHA will not make self-hosted runners free, they’ll move into a different pricing structure that may or may not be beneficial.

And I think charging for self-hosted runners is actually fine. They’re not free for the provider either - log aggregation, caching of artifacts, runner scheduling, implementing the runner software etc are non-trivial problems for any larger CI system.

So I’m actually fine with the proposed change since it also gives me the power as a customer to say “hey, I’m paying for this, fix it.”

numbsafari · 2 months ago

We already pay for the “control plane” for GHA, though.

You might as well say that we should be paying per PR and Issue because, well, that part can’t just be free, you know?

numbsafari commented on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions resources.github.com/acti... · Posted by u/kevin-david

deathanatos · 2 months ago

You know, one might ask what the base fee of $4k/mo (in my org's case) is covering, if not the control plane?

Unless you're on the free org plan, they're hardly doing it "for free" today…

numbsafari · 2 months ago

Exactly this. It’s not like they don’t have plenty of other fees and charges. What’s next, charging mil rates for webhook deliveries?